Emerging from the shadows, with Lihaaf and Ismat Chughtai.
Ismat Chughtai (1915-1991), an Indian Urdu novelist, wrote extensively on sensitive themes like femininity and female sexuality.
Ismat Chughtai (1915-1991), an Indian Urdu novelist, wrote extensively on sensitive themes like femininity and female sexuality.
Munshi Premchand, an Indian Hindu writer talks about equality in the Islamic faith in his article “Islamic Civilisation” published in 1925.
Queen Elizabeth II, the monarch of the United Kingdom and the Commonwealth realm, passed away yesterday on the 8th of September 2022, at 18:30 BST.
The Mahdawi movement relates to the arrival of the Messiah or Mehdi. Several people claimed to be the Mehdi throughout Islamic history.
Gandhi and Ambedkar are India’s most popular thinkers, and also the most romanticised ones. While Gandhi is called the “father of India”, Ambedkar is called the father of the text that makes India a democracy (on paper), the Constitution. People often worship these figures, but usually do not read, thus begins the saga of romanticisation.
Syed Sadequain Ahmed Naqvi Amrohvi (1930-1987) left his indelible imprints in the sphere of art and literature. An incredibly celebrated painter and poet.
एक बार क़ुतुबमीनार देखने गया; वहाँ के गाइड ने बताया के ये ग़ुलाम […]
Prof Mushirul Hasan, one of the greatest historians of Modern India and an institution builder.
The life and works of Mr. Syed Raza Imam of Chapra. An active participant in the social and political movements of his time, he made effective contributions to them.
October 30 is the first death anniversary of noted economist, former head and chairman of the Department of Economics at McMaster University, Canada, Prof Syed Ahmad. An alumnus of Jamia Millia, Patna University, Aligarh Muslim University and London School of Economics, Ahmad taught at universities in Aligarh, Khartoum (Sudan), Kent (England) and McMaster (Canada), was visiting professor at many other institutions and has left a legion of students and admirers across the globe.
The Palestine-Israeli conflict has long drawn the attention of the world. The conflict is rooted in banal partition plan of the state of Palestine dividing it into two distant parts and creating Israel in between. The recent fighting between Hamas and Israel started in the holy month of Ramazan as a result of Israeli encroachment in Sheikh Jarrah locality in West Bank.
Today, urban planners in Bengaluru are concerned with and are coming up with masterplans to absorb the “urban population” which will flow with CRS.
हाशिम रज़ा जलालपुरी से मेरा परिचय कब और कहाँ हुआ था ये तो […]
From deciphering the poetry of Ghalib to reviving the ancient art of Dastaangoi, the contributions of Shamsur Rahman Faruqi to Urdu literature are immeasurable.
the broken epitaph of Brigadier Muhammad Usman.
For an observer, who had studied Jawaharlal Nehru’s handling of communist movements, the 1958 article did not come as ‘a welcome departure’. Surely, not after listening to him calling communists ‘the stupidest party in the world’, terrorists, anti-Indian, anti-people or anti-country.
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi – the epitome of innate Indian culture have rightfully earned […]
In the times when journalists, reporters and writers have taken biased positions with […]
INDIA’S Prime Minister, Mrs. Indira Gandhi, faces a grave challenge in the small […]
Violence that followed forced 200,000 Rohingya to flee to Bangladesh. Bangladesh denied Rohingya admission into her territory and blocked food rations leading to death of 12,000 of them.
He stayed in America for nearly eight years and studied at five different Universities. He started as a student of Mathematics, Physics and Chemistry and then devoted years to the study of Biology, Psychology, Economics and Sociology. He had several times interrupted his studies in order to earn enough to carry on at his University for a term or two. He had worked as a farm labourer for ten hours a day, as a packer in a jam factory, as a mechanic in an iron concern, as a waiter in a restaurant. He had tried his hand as a salesman. When, therefore, he returned to India in 1929, it was not as a raw student looking forward to a comfortable life, but as one who had seen life at close quarters and was fully determined to devote himself to public life.
The machine (EVM) could also eliminate booth-capturing as it would become possible for the Election Commission to introduce mobile polling stations to take the machines to the doorsteps of the people, especially the weaker sections.
Akbar Allahabadi was senior to Iqbal and he wrote a reply to Sare Jahan Se Achcha in form of another poem.
The idea of reservation to OBCs (Hindus, Muslims or Sikhs) came about in 1990 after the Mandal Commission recommendations were implemented. The reservation under article 341 defined only SC community and most of these Pasmanda castes don’t come under this identification.
“This is the Congress radio calling on 42.34 meters from somewhere in India,” spoke Usha Mehta after the Quit India Movement had been silenced by the Britishers.
Bollywood actress Sara Ali Khan plays Usha Mehta in her movie Ae Watan Mere Watan.
Read our special feature about India’s bravest Radio Jockey ,fondly known as Radio Ben
CAPTAIN LAKSHMI SAHGAL – Doctor by Job, Freedom Fighter by Will
During the Bengal famine, Sahir Ludhianvi wrote a poem which has a couplet:
In 1839, Samuel Morse, reputed as the telegraph pioneer, laid the first telegraph lines connecting Washington to Baltimore. In India, the same year, O’Shaughnessy completed 21 miles of a telegraph line wrapped around trees and vast stretches which included a river crossing of 4 miles as an experiment.
Democracy is an occidental idea. A Hindu cannot comprehend it as long as he is a Hindu. It is against his religious belief. The divisions of Varna are the basis of his religion. He cannot see without distress a Brahman or Kshtriya serving a Sudra. A Brahman may beg or even may die, yet he will never touch a dish from which a Sudra has partaken food.